Word: keenans
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When the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America announced its endorsement of Barack Obama earlier this week, president Nancy Keenan and her colleagues knew their decision would raise eyebrows. The debate between Obama and Clinton supporters on the organization's board, according to those familiar with it, was "spirited." But they ultimately reached a unanimous decision to throw their support behind Obama, a longtime supporter of abortion rights, and the move was immediately assailed by Clinton supporters as a betrayal. In the process, they added new fuel to a furious debate that has raged mostly below the surface...
...This isn't the first time that NARAL has made waves in the women's community since Keenan took over its leadership at the end of 2004. During the debate over Justice John Roberts' confirmation as Supreme Court chief justice, the organization ran a controversial ad strongly implying equivalence between the jurist's views and the actions of abortion opponents who bomb clinics. The next year, NARAL took the unusual step of endorsing then-G.O.P. Senator Lincoln Chafee in his reelection race before he even had a Democratic challenger. The group was criticized by other pro-choice allies...
...possible for everybody to be part of a level of fundraising that would inspire donors to do more,” she said. The FAS development team is also changing. With director Scott A. Abell ’72 retiring at the end of the year, Paul T. Keenan ’85 has been named to the team’s top post. Kennan said that the University Development Office has been an important partner in facilitating cross-school collaboration, but he said he understands that “FAS is the heart of the University...
...very much enjoyed Elizabeth Keenan's account of the extraordinary Finke river race in central Australia, and the certifiably crazy people who take part in it. I was intrigued, however, by the geologists' reference to the Finke as the "oldest river on earth." I am no hydrographer, but I have always thought one of the defining qualities of a river is water. Given that the Finke is almost permanently empty, shouldn't it be known as the oldest groove on earth? Anthony Connell, Sydney...
...spectator with a lot invested in the outcome. Seven seats away and one row back from Blair, three ordinary looking men watched, expressionless, as the new government was formed, only smiling briefly to each other when former IRA bomber Gerry Kelly was nominated to join the new administration. Brian Keenan, Bobby Storey and Brian Gillen were once denounced as IRA terrorists by Peter Robinson, another member of the new government; now they sat in the VIP section of the viewing gallery, well within reach of a British prime minister who would once have been considered the ultimate IRA target...